OPINION: No such thing as ‘limpio’ in a dirty job

Ellen T. Tordesillas

In the narration of SPO3 Arturo Lascañas of the “jobs” he had done as member of the Davao Death Squad (DDS), he recalled the instruction of then-Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in a murder operation against the financier of a kidnapping: “Sige, limpio lang.”

The Senate will test Lascañas’ credibility in the hearing to be conducted by Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s committee on public order and dangerous drugs. He is expected to give more details of the crimes he has participated in.